From the Politico "Playbook": "Donald dines out."
The dinner disrupters:
Watch how Trump stands and smiles, taking the abuse for awhile, then waves his finger in a subtle get-'em-outta-here message. Seconds later, he flashes angry and orders "Come on, let's go." I imagine people around him learn to jump at the subtle gesture so they won't have to endure the swiftly approaching rage. All 3 stages are, I believe, political theater: 1. the patient smile, 2. the subtle finger wave, 3. The sharp, angry order. I don't think he was happy, then disapproving, then rageful. It's a routine and he's in control. That's where I place my bet.
CODEPINK activists disrupted Trump, Vance, Hegseth, Rubio, and other cabinet members’ dinner.
— CODEPINK (@codepink) September 10, 2025
They feast while Gaza starves.
Trump is the Hitler of our time.
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All the pouncing!
Bowser extended it to November. Politico is a little behind the actual news, unexpectedly.
WJLA reports
Will the crime come back?
Democratics HOPE YES
Making like safe for real people is not on the corrupt left's agenda.
Frankly it seems like Trump is cutting his losses.
that lack of AID funding, really scrimps on their creativity,
It needs to be policed by people with a higher status than black gang members, or they're start competing for gang status again.
Apparently there’s more work to be done in DC, or so Politico intimates.
Treat the goddam place like Tobacco Road: Blow it up, start all over again.
Trump's enemies are his best friends.
well will the possums get off their duff, and pass something to extend funding,
Peachy said...
Will the crime come back? Democratics HOPE YES
…my bet is they paid to make sure it does..:
Frankly it seems like Trump is cutting his losses.
Say more about this, if you would - it doesn't seem this way to me (to me, it seems that the NG stunt - I see it as a stunt since it is necessarily time-limited - is a way for Trump to say, again, "You all keep saying 'we need comprehensive legislation to solve this or that problem,' but look what simple will can accomplish! Now it's up to you"). I'm interested in what you are perceiving.
Howard- seems like?
You're wrong. The deal was for 30 days.
The left: the National Guard is scary
also the left:
Criminals are preferred.... &
"We self-obsessed leftists DO NOT care about the brutal murder of a young woman from Ukraine. Crime happens. Deal with it you dummy magas."
In other news, excerpts from Kamala Harris’s new book reveal that Harris was told her speeches were “too good” and that she should back off a bit on them.
I get the sense that Politico, after weeks of complaining that crime isn't that bad and DC didn't need the help, are now complaining that Trump didn't really make crime better and is looking for an ass-covering exit.
(Yes, the seeming happiness at being heckled is a pose--so what?--but the hand gestures are just a smooth subtlety. Nothing wrong with that. It's what well-oiled machines do.)
unlike Witch Hochul's potemkin* move, it seems to have brought some piece,
*apologies to the Duke, Katarina's consort, established communities that became cities like sebastopol for instance,
Howard said...Frankly it seems like Trump is cutting his losses.
It's like having front row seats to the narrative shift.
Careful, Howard, or you might get whiplash.
What the hell is this political theatre? Random seeth-ers allowed in the dining room within striking distance to the President? bull shit. I don’t know enough about Presidential protection but when John Kerry came over to visit his friend at my condo building I had to wait or clear the hall before they moved the asset. Once in a while they’d deliberately seat them or the governor near us at Bristol only because a front guy on the detail was security at our office and knew who we were…
it's a good thing, politico is digital, much like axios, it would make the fish scales chafe,
Palestine does need freeing - from the Leftist Hamas Nazis.
Codepink is skeeery.
Code Pinko = Pro Hamas. Those dumb ignorant brainwashed females should go to Gaza and find out.
Mentally ill Leftists sure do have a lot of time on their hands.
The Democrats are in a trap and they know it. Trump showed what can be done if you have the political will to do it. When the NG and the federal officers leave D.C. enforcement to the local Demwits, which must happen by the law the media have been trumpeting for the last month, the crime will return to D.C. and Trump will get to point that out relentlessly.
What Yancy said.
BTW, where were their pussy hats?
How did Code Pink know where he was going for dinner?
The video was not the best. I could not see which one was Inga.
Mary Beth...someone who has TDS probably works at the restaurant, and tipped them off.
Adult libtards disrupting the public peace chanting like children in a schoolyard should be silenced By Any Means Necessary.
Rather than micro-analyze Trump's every expression, gesture, and word choice, it'd be nice if people would try to judge him by the results of his actions and policies.
BTW, what's stopping Trump from commencing a new 30-day "takeover" if and when DC returns?
FREE PALESTINE FROM HAMAS-holes.
The protesters sound like a group of five year old girls who are proud that they can remember the whole rhyme.
Democrat leaders need to make it clear that they are opposed to disruptions in and around private businesses especially when those disruptions are aimed at a President who has survived to attempts at his life. This isn’t theater. This isn’t cute.
Secret Service took their sweet time. Something doesn’t make sense.
Old Left - there is no crime problem in DC
Middle Left - the NG has not reduced crime, and in fact have made DC scary
New Left - NG was all a stunt and crime remained bad throughout.
The self-righteous entitlement of rich white women, aka Code Pink. Who is letting them in to seemingly every Congressional hearing? Who is always telling them the movements of POTUS? These informers and collaborators are a security risk and need to be fired and tried for their crimes. I'm not holding my breath on that one.
I say the only people not in on it was us…
I wouldn’t discount Trump “allowing” the people to protest. It shows something to other world leaders. They weren’t arrested for their comments. Just made to leave.
I hate imperfect -ine/-ime rhymes.
The chant should go "Free D.C., Free Palestine, Trump is the Hitler who should resign" or Free D.C., Free Palestine, Trump is the Hitler not allowed to dine" of similar.
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...
Bowser extended it to November.
Of course she did. Otherwise, it would be a clear "National Guard On" versus "National Guard Off" demonstration of Democrat fecklessness and incompetence.
"'Free D.C., Free Palestine, Trump is the Hitler of our time'"
For comparison, where's the historic footage of the protesters who confronted Adolf Hitler?
They all bitches and hos.
Is it an "ultra-traditional dining room" when Democrats or journalists eat there? Or just another restaurant?
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Trump needs to let DC's criminals know that if they don't behave the National Guard can always come back.
Trump cut off the various federal government agencies’ subscriptions to Politico. Politico still pissed.
Middle Coast: “ Secret Service took their sweet time. Something doesn’t make sense.”
Heckling in and of itself is not a crime. And it can be a distraction for a real attacker. So the USSS generally does not act on mere hecklers. The property owner can make a trespass complaint, preferably thru local cops.
Assuming the TikToker is one of the protestors, they were practically sitting at Trump’s table, to the point that Rubio couldn’t pull out his chair. So the USSS could and did react enough to clear out a reasonable security zone (ie, “not up our asses” - Blackstone vol XIII).
I would imagine that shortly after that, Joe’s management requested the protesters leave, at which time they either complied or got locked up. RR, JSM
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